Generation Zero

Gaming NexusRandy Kalista

6.5/10

This isn't Call of Duty in the land of Swedish meatballs, it's Boston Dynamics in an IKEA-effect hunting sim. Come for the difficult robot fights, stay for the Arctic Circle sunsets. The technical issues will make you rage quit one day and then bring you back the next.

Capsule ComputersJamie Laike Tsui

4/10

A great premise that was terribly executed. Generation Zero is painfully boring and repetitive.

When I first read the premise of Generation Zero I was intrigued and before I even loaded the game up for the first time I was excited. I wanted to like this game. Unfortunately, the game quickly falls into a beautiful void of its own making. With weak storytelling and empty gameplay, Generation Zero sinks into the mud and collapses like so many tents at the festival that day, gripping to weak foundations.

VGChartzEvan Norris

4/10

I would walk 500 miles.If only Generation Zero was as spectacular as its theme song. Part

The OuterHavenDiego Perez

I wanted to like this game. I really did. Generation Zero had little buzz surrounding it in the months leading up to its release, much to my surprise when I learned of the game's existence. A co-op open-world shooter set in 1980's Sweden with a kickin' synth soundtrack? That checks so many…

GameSpewRichard Seagrave

4/10

Basically then, Generation Zero is a game of extreme peaks of troughs. At times it’s dreadfully boring; other times it’s wildly exciting. It doesn’t want to make your life easy, but then throws so much resources your way that being downed is trivial. It looks great, but it has a lot of bugs that will only make you able to view the game as ugly. Like Marmite, Generation Zero will dramatically split opinion. But it’s not just a matter of taste – Generation Zero‘s glitches and ill-implemented mechanics are just as much to blame.

Xbox AchievementsRichard Walker

35/100

While the apocalypse is traditionally painted in varying shades of drab brown and grey, here it's brought to life in lovely bucolic greens and yellows. This pastoral loveliness doesn't disguise the fact that Generation Zero is unremittingly, cripplingly dull, providing protracted periods of walking vast distances with all-too short bouts of gunplay. How the developer behind Just Cause managed to create this vacuous, pointless game is beyond me.

GameGrinMark Reece

3/10

Periodically beautiful yet consistently broken, Generation Zero’s brand of monotonous, sterile and bug-riddled open-world first-person shooting is something that you should avoid at all costs.

GameTyrant Daniel Black

0/10

Generation Zero , by Avalanche Studios , is like a nice red balloon, really nice and fun to play with for a bit, but eventually just deflates and was filled with very little.

The Nerd StashGeorge Cavalaris

Unscored

Verdict: Generation Zero had some good ideas but most of them were poorly executed. For trying to tap into the survival horror genre by replicating a Black Mirror episode would have been quite impressive. Although with the lack of character creations, unable to create new saves, stuck fighting for 4 or 5 hours, and graphical bugs might want people waiting for a Steam sale or Microsoft store deal. That or by having more friends to play with.

Analog Stick GamingJeff Young

Unscored

While the title has some interesting ideas and moments of intense combat, its wide open world can leave a lot to be desired, despite how absolutely gorgeous it can look. For a game that follows the trend of environmental story telling, it just doesn’t tell an interesting or captivating narrative amo

Checkpoint GamingElliot Attard

Unscored

Generation Zero takes place in a reimagining of 1980’s Sweden. You play as a teenager returning from vacation to find a completely deserted town, devoid of all human life. Something has taken place and you’re not quite sure what that something is.